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ISSUE: November 15, 2009
Articles about energy efficiency
In Search Of A Green Machine
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2-15-2008
ConserveWith all the sky-is-falling news these days — global warming, crashing fisheries, mercury contamination even on mountaintops — you probably haven...
Article Excerpts:
...Assessment Tool (EPEAT) rates products on
energy efficiency
, packaging, toxics reduction, manufacturing...
...matters is the types of materials and the
energy efficiency
. Could they make computers easier to pull apart...
Clean And Sobering
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2-15-2008
After decades of runaway economic expansion, China is confronting the resulting massive pollution problem.
Article Excerpts:
...with the Chinese government to improve the
energy efficiency
of the country’s buildings, which lags far...
...develop the kind of products necessary to boost
energy efficiency
.
While there are certainly many trends...
The Greening of the Santa Monica Pier
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7-15-2009
THE SANTA MONICA PIER’S Ferris wheel has held reign as the world’s only solar-powered wheel for the last decade -- but last year the California amusement got even more energy efficient when it was replaced with the nine-story $1.5 million Pacific Wheel, which lifts riders more than 130 feet above the Pacific Ocean, lights up the sky with 160,000 energy-efficient LED lights, and generates more than 71,000 kilowatt hours of renewable photovoltaic power from sunlight.
Article Excerpts:
...low-mercury fluorescent bulbs; improving the
energy efficiency
of the animal life-support system; and using 100...
Question
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5-15-2007
Why can't we construct a building in a better, stronger, faster manner, and, while we're at it, make it more environmentally friendly?Architect Steve Kieran has been...
Article Excerpts:
...plumbing, and everything was preinsulated for
energy efficiency
. “The fear with this kind of...
Great Work If You Can Get It
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7-15-2008
For green-collar workers, business is booming.
Article Excerpts:
...jobs in the fields of renewable energy and
energy efficiency
alone, and says that 40 million new jobs could...
Powering Down
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4-15-2009
One of the dirty little secrets of our networked, computerized “new economy” is that it actually uses an awful lot of old-fashioned power, most of which comes from coal and other polluting sources. The data centers that make search engines, online shopping, and long-distance business collaboration possible use 40 times more energy than regular office buildings, sucking up one to two percent of the nation’s electricity.
Article Excerpts:
...As budgets contract, companies are looking into
energy efficiency
and more environmentally friendly IT. Here are...